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How to use exemplum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word exemplum? Here are some examples.

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Restoration and Augustan poetry reign here, providing Brown's primary locus of interpretation and exemplum of cultural fable.
Macbeth lives as an exemplum of the perverted hero, because of Shakespeare's ability to give life to every stage of his disastrous career.
The odor of public corruption that surrounded the Gasthuis land affair lent it particular force as a moral exemplum.
For instance, the longest exemplum in this section is that of St. Christine, the author's patron saint.
The Salome of literature, a tragic exemplum of love and death, as she crosses paths with the vicissitudes of the Baptist.
These events of the early Church and their way of living them constitute for us the exemplum, the model for being Church.
After reading this concise examination of Bonhoeffer's life as moral exemplum, it is quite possible the reader will feel the same way.
He explains how the author has successfully used the rhetorical technique of exemplum to argue a case that, at least on the surface, seemed untenable.
The imagery of the wolves serves as an exemplum that was intended to persuade the Romans to reconsider their own behaviour.
Fairy tales, jokes, and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition.
Examples from Classical Literature
Certainly the convent never went to sleep in a sermon which had the tale of Chauntecleer and Pertelote for its exemplum.
This story is a sort of exemplum of the sin of pride and avarice.
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